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  • Our Deadliest Addiction

    Oil drives our commerce, but could drive us to extinction “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” — Heraclitus, 535 BC-475 BC. * * * When European explorers first sighted a pristine Gulf of Mexico 500…

  • Ontario audit throws cold water on federal-provincial love affair with P3s

    A public-private partnership (P3) could be anything that involves the public and private sector. But in this case the term refers to a capital project funded by the public sector that involves significant private finance, and often involves private maintenance and operation of the facility over many years. P3s go…

  • Many Dangers of Public-Private Partnerships (P3s) in Newfoundland and Labrador

    Download 606.3 KB 57 pages Many Dangers of Public-Private Partnerships (P3s) in Newfoundland and Labrador provides evidence about these deals that should make Newfoundlanders and Labradorians very concerned about how their government is making decisions when it comes to spending public revenue. On the surface, while P3s might look like the best option…

  • Time for change: A farewell message from CCPA-BC Director Shannon Daub

    Dear friends, It is with mixed feelings that I share my decision with you to move on from the CCPA. Mixed because I am ready for a change in my career, but that doesn’t spare me the heartache of saying goodbye to an organization I’ve had the honour of helping…

  • FTA at 25, NAFTA at 20

    Twenty-five year anniversaries are symbolized by silver, but on the 25th anniversary of the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement (FTA), that symbol is pretty tarnished. The FTA and the now 20-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) managed to tilt the balance in favour of big corporations at the expense of…

  • One step forward for low-waged workers in Halifax?

    Today the Halifax Regional Municipal Council will consider a staff report that recommends that Council approve the adoption of a Supplier Code of Conduct (including Living Wage requirements). Voting in favour of this recommendation would be one important step forward, but will not have the impact that a broader living wage policy could…

  • Corporate Mapping Project

    Canada’s Carbon Conundrum and the Difficult Path Forward

    Since the first oil well was drilled in 1859 humans have been on a roll. Global population has increased more than six-fold and energy use per capita has grown more than nine-fold. Accompanying this explosive growth in energy use was unprecedented economic expansion— since 1965 global GDP has grown 6.8-fold…

  • The Problem with Public-Private Partnerships

    Economic crisis exposes the high costs and risks of P3s If there is one thing that the current financial and economic crisis has shown, it is that the neoconservative economic model of deregulation, privatization, tax cuts, free trade and unequal growth is bankrupt. And yet, incredibly, Canadian governments and corporations…

  • When $300,000 isn’t enough

    I heard today that the Fraser Health Authority is giving its CEO Nigel Murray a $30,000 bonus on top of his $300,000 annual salary.  Put that up against the cuts the Authority is making to services for addicted youth and seniors, among others.   Remember that hospital housekeeping workers, who are…

  • Growing Gap

    Reversing the growing inequality among provinces

    The decade long petro-boom has caused major distortions in the Canadian economy, and has driven growing interpersonal and interprovincial inequality. The flood of petro-revenue into Alberta— the source and destination of the  vast  majority of  petro-wealth— pushed up its per capita GDP from 10% above the Canadian average in 2002,…

  • The Lac-Mégantic oil train catastrophe eight years later: Justice still denied

    Forty-seven people died that night—their hopes and dreams obliterated, future wiped out.

  • Ontario Alternative Budget

    The cure is worse than what ails us

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT TORONTO– Even before the SARS outbreak, our healthcare system was under stress. While workers in the health care system struggle to cope with a public health crisis, we should not lose sight of the prob-lems in the health care system prior to the…